“I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie”

“If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe. ”

“In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. But learning to make a movie is totally different.”

“Life is three-dimensional, but there are other dimensions we can't see, can only feel, and those are the ones I want to explore.”

“Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.”

“The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.”